יום שישי, ד׳ תמוז תשפ״וFriday, June 19, 2026
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Allison Josephs is the founder and director of Jew in the City, which reverses negative associations about religious Jews and makes engaging and meaningful Orthodox Judaism known and accessible.
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On television, Jews are often portrayed in stereotypical ways – nudniks, nebbish sons, overbearing mothers, JAPY daughters, or going unorthodox. Up until a couple years ago, there was no concrete research to show just how pervasive this problem was.
We mourn the moment that it became fatally dangerous in the United States of America to express an opinion.
While no two groups share the exact same persecution, and some people hold multiple identities, there’s a lot that the Jewish community can learn from the Black community when it comes to organizing, educating and eradicating a problematic practice.
We need to take these awful suggestions and use them to create enough fire in our bellies in order for us to do the exact opposite.
As I thought about how the child who stole our sleep had become the child who guarded our sleep, the verse from Tehillim echoed in my head: Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
I recently discovered that Hollywood doesn’t consider Jews a minority. That’s why we don’t get minority protection.
Rejecting something with knowledge is one thing, but most Jews in the world today have essentially rejected a life of Jewish observance with very little book or experiential knowledge.
By now everyone has heard of Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. The book received much more attention than it should have.
